Associate with people who are going somewhere, becoming somebody, empowering and encouraging you. Avoid your association with people who are making you a victim and using you for their personal benefits. We must time with people who align with our value systems, friendship, attitudes and understanding. In my opinion, it is important for people to associate and connect with all but at a deeper level, they must limit their association with few people who have some substance.
Many college going youngsters both boys and girls are victims of drugs, cigarettes and alcohol today. They have cultivated the habit of smoking and using drugs for various reasons. They don't know what future consequences they will face if they continue to smoke or use drugs. It is fun and fashionable to show off but there is a dark side too.
People Smoke to release their stress.
When I see young boys and girls smoking, out of curiosity, I ask them why they smoke them. They quickly reply saying that they smoke only to relieve themselves from stress. They don't have knowledge, experience and know-how to handle their stress and they blindly fall into the habit of smoking. They start with one cigarette, and then it is no longer one cigarette but thousands of cigarettes they end up smoking in a year. The smoking habits get reinforced when their peers also associate with them all the while. As long as they associate with each other, there is no hope of quitting. If people don't move out of that unhealthy environment, they will stay in that hell forever till they die.
My wife's uncle acquired the habit of smoking and drinking alcohol by associating with his friends who used to engage in such unhealthy habits. It started with one cigarette and one glass of beer but it multiplied over the years and it became finally an addiction where it was hard to quit. My wife's uncle enjoyed drinking and smoking heavily neglecting his wife and children's welfare. Then a day came, when his drinking and smoking could no longer sustain his life. He had jaundice and it didn't leave him for months. He had to be hospitalized and treated for his sickness but he couldn't recover from jaundice. He was admitted in the ICCU because he had so much complication but he couldn't survive for a week. He suffered so much and died alone. His unfulfilled dreams and wishes died too. His talents and skills were buried with him. He didn't leave behind any fortune or legacy for his family.
The youngsters don't know what dire consequences they will face in life if they continue their bad habits or continue to associate with unhealthy groups. If people associate with writers, they tend to become writers; if they associate with entrepreneurs they will most likely become entrepreneurs; if they associate with smokers, alcoholics and drug addicts, they will become like them. We become what we do with our precious time and energy. If you spend your time and energy with people who want to become successful, happy, healthy and rich, you will become like them. On the other hand, if you spend your time and energy with people who are engaged in unhealthy habits and practices, you will become like them.
Therefore it is important to make a wise choice when you are growing up. I made a choice not to smoke and use drugs when I was young and that choice has contributed so much for my growth and achievement. I am glad I made that choice because it makes me happy. I am glad I didn't conform to the peer pressure. People can make a choice but they easily give in to the temptation because they lack discipline, philosophy and guidance. So make a decision to move out of unhealthy association quickly so that you don't get dragged into the hell of bad habits and misfortune.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Do you want to flourish, thrive and experience favourable results?
Who doesn't want to prosper, flourish, succeed, thrive and experience favourable results in life? We all want to prosper and experience favourable results because we don't want to miss out anything in life. You must remember one thing you have the power to make your dreams come true!
Abundant results will flow to you, if you apply certain principles on a regular basis. Nobody ever desires to be lacking some valuable and necessary things. Almost everybody desires for abundance and it is not a bad idea. Here below are some of the principles, which may assist you in flourishing and experiencing good results.
Develop order and discipline.
There is a natural law and everything is in order. The nature has its own order. The same way, if you want to thrive and accumulate abundance, you must have a desire for order. If there is a limitation, then you have a problem with order. There is no order and discipline in your thinking, believing, speaking, affirming, emotions, body, relationship, financial affairs and in all phases of life. To bring abundance you need to be in order and discipline first in these critical areas and if you neglect there is bound to be a lack or limitation. Your thinking, feeling, acting and believing must align with your desires and goals.
Bring inner peace, self-confidence and happiness.
Once you have developed the order and discipline, you will automatically experience inner peace, self-confidence and happiness. There will be a new look of power and victory over defeat. It is your inner tranquillity and confidence that can ensure you the prosperity that you desire to obtain. After setting right things, your thinking and feeling and understanding, you will soon feel the happiness with you.
Learn Prosperous Thinking.
Many people think lack and poverty most of the time. They say to themselves, "I can't afford it. It is too expensive. or I don't have money." This kind of thinking can never bear abundant results that you seek to achieve in your life. The abundance will follow you when you learn how to have a prosperous thinking. Prosperous thinking enables people to be relaxed in mind and body. If you are not relaxed and calm, you can't engage in prosperous thinking. You must relax more and more in mind and body. There should not be any tension both in conscious and subconscious mind. When you start prosperous thinking a new attitude of appreciation, abundance, success, love and happiness will be born without your realization. Why you should engage in prosperous thinking is very simple, the universe expects you to flourish, thrive and enjoy all the good blessings that come because of your prosperous thinking.
People can easily thrive and achieve fruitful results and thereby live a happy life. But many don't have clear ideas how to accomplish them. As you know by now, you must maintain order and discipline, second you have to experience inner peace, self-confidence and engage in prosperous thinking. If you apply these three simple yet powerful principles you can prosper, flourish, succeed, thrive and experience favourable results in life.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
Abundant results will flow to you, if you apply certain principles on a regular basis. Nobody ever desires to be lacking some valuable and necessary things. Almost everybody desires for abundance and it is not a bad idea. Here below are some of the principles, which may assist you in flourishing and experiencing good results.
Develop order and discipline.
There is a natural law and everything is in order. The nature has its own order. The same way, if you want to thrive and accumulate abundance, you must have a desire for order. If there is a limitation, then you have a problem with order. There is no order and discipline in your thinking, believing, speaking, affirming, emotions, body, relationship, financial affairs and in all phases of life. To bring abundance you need to be in order and discipline first in these critical areas and if you neglect there is bound to be a lack or limitation. Your thinking, feeling, acting and believing must align with your desires and goals.
Bring inner peace, self-confidence and happiness.
Once you have developed the order and discipline, you will automatically experience inner peace, self-confidence and happiness. There will be a new look of power and victory over defeat. It is your inner tranquillity and confidence that can ensure you the prosperity that you desire to obtain. After setting right things, your thinking and feeling and understanding, you will soon feel the happiness with you.
Learn Prosperous Thinking.
Many people think lack and poverty most of the time. They say to themselves, "I can't afford it. It is too expensive. or I don't have money." This kind of thinking can never bear abundant results that you seek to achieve in your life. The abundance will follow you when you learn how to have a prosperous thinking. Prosperous thinking enables people to be relaxed in mind and body. If you are not relaxed and calm, you can't engage in prosperous thinking. You must relax more and more in mind and body. There should not be any tension both in conscious and subconscious mind. When you start prosperous thinking a new attitude of appreciation, abundance, success, love and happiness will be born without your realization. Why you should engage in prosperous thinking is very simple, the universe expects you to flourish, thrive and enjoy all the good blessings that come because of your prosperous thinking.
People can easily thrive and achieve fruitful results and thereby live a happy life. But many don't have clear ideas how to accomplish them. As you know by now, you must maintain order and discipline, second you have to experience inner peace, self-confidence and engage in prosperous thinking. If you apply these three simple yet powerful principles you can prosper, flourish, succeed, thrive and experience favourable results in life.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Celebrate Important Events With Your Family and Friends!
"Celebrate the little things in life, appreciate tomorrow, love your neighbour or don’t, but never condemn yourself to a life without cause to celebrate and be thankful for what you have. Never forget the people you love and love them when you have an occasion to do so. Celebrate their life and celebrate yours." Anonymous
People celebrate on the occasion of some important events with their family members and they also invite their friends and neighbours to join them. It is a great way to share the joy and happiness with others when there is a celebration. In India there are so many festivals and you can guess there are many celebrations among all walks of life. People celebrate because they know that they don't have to be in griefs all the time. Forgetting all adversity and loss, people must celebrate in order to lift their souls up. This way they can easily enlighten their heavy hearts.
There are many reasons why people should celebrate and how they should share their joys with others. When we include others especially our family members, friends and neighbours there is bound to be a great chance of bonding together.
Celebration gives birth to friendship.
When we invite others to participate in our joys and success, there is a great opportunity of creating strong friendship among the participants. In my opinion, celebration is important to make new friends and establish new relationship. Celebration is a platform to know others and be one with them. So look forward to participate in any kind of celebration whenever you are invited to join any occasion. In celebration we form a friendship which considers one another as significant and valuable. There is appreciation, love, thoughtfulness and a great deal of encouragement and support. So don't miss out any celebration when you get an opportunity to take part. You will be inspired and motivated to live your life happily and cheerfully forgetting your sorrows and sickness.
Celebration establishes connection and communication.
When there is any celebration in a family, it tends to connect people with each other and a new window of communication opens. Those who don't know others they become acquainted with others. This way the connection gets established and communication channels are open 24/7. Building a network of friends and well-wishers are necessary because we are all connected and interdependent. That means without much connection and communication our life on earth could be a boring one. So spend time to connect with others in times of celebration.
Celebration builds and promotes harmony, brotherhood and sisterhood.
Celebration is a big topic here to write about however, in general, I want to say that any celebration has power in it. It builds and promotes harmony, brotherhood and sisterhood among people. Living together in harmony is essence of our existence on this earth. So celebrate as much as you can and include others if you are able to invite them. Yesterday was my wife's birthday and I invited all her family members and close friends for a dinner party. The idea was to build and promote friendship, togetherness, connection and harmony. It was a small party but there was a great feeling of love, joy, appreciation, contentment, friendship and a sense of belongingness.
Finally celebrate life, celebrate victory, celebrate birthday, celebrate anniversary and celebrate all occasions so that you create a better world which includes everyone as one family. As long as we live on this earth we all belong to one family, one society, one nation and one world. Yes, we may cook in a different kitchen or stay in a different house or different country but we all are interdependent and connected. We are no way aloof from the others. We are all bonded and joined together with unseen threads.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.Oprah Winfrey
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Believe You Have What It Takes!
You are quite sure reading under an electric light. You know it was made possible by one great man Thomas A. Edison. He gave the first practical electric light to the world. But do you know he was practically thrown out of school in the early grades where his teacher called him stupid as a result he could not continue schooling?
Just imagine, what would have happened if he had allowed his teacher's opinions have an impact on him. Naturally, we would not be enjoying electric light for years. Where would he have been if he had allowed others' opinions to take charge of his thinking?
I want to say that you have all that it takes to succeed, become and achieve any result you seek to pursue in your life. Fortunately, Edison decided to live his own life. Through early adversity, he discovered something he might never have learned through formal schooling. He learned, first, that he had a mind he could control and direct toward any desired end. When he took full possession of that "addled" mind it produced not only the incandescent lamp but also one great discovery after another.
This proves one thing, we possess what it takes to be successful in life. We must first believe it and confidently walk across the road to achieve what we desire. Believe you have what it takes to live, succeed and enjoy your life. There is no limitation and no difficulty except that your thinking may obstruct you.
Wright Brothers are another excellent examples to show how people possess everything that they need to succeed in life. I am sure, you have what it takes to be happy, wealthy and healthy. There is not a lack or limitation in your life. You can design anything that you want in life because you have already what you want.
I can just urge you to do your own research and studies about people who have succeeded in life despite huge obstacles. Learn to see the solution rather than blockage or obstacle. Believe you have what it takes to be happy, healthy, wealthy and to contribute to the service of humanity.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
Just imagine, what would have happened if he had allowed his teacher's opinions have an impact on him. Naturally, we would not be enjoying electric light for years. Where would he have been if he had allowed others' opinions to take charge of his thinking?
I want to say that you have all that it takes to succeed, become and achieve any result you seek to pursue in your life. Fortunately, Edison decided to live his own life. Through early adversity, he discovered something he might never have learned through formal schooling. He learned, first, that he had a mind he could control and direct toward any desired end. When he took full possession of that "addled" mind it produced not only the incandescent lamp but also one great discovery after another.
This proves one thing, we possess what it takes to be successful in life. We must first believe it and confidently walk across the road to achieve what we desire. Believe you have what it takes to live, succeed and enjoy your life. There is no limitation and no difficulty except that your thinking may obstruct you.
Wright Brothers are another excellent examples to show how people possess everything that they need to succeed in life. I am sure, you have what it takes to be happy, wealthy and healthy. There is not a lack or limitation in your life. You can design anything that you want in life because you have already what you want.
I can just urge you to do your own research and studies about people who have succeeded in life despite huge obstacles. Learn to see the solution rather than blockage or obstacle. Believe you have what it takes to be happy, healthy, wealthy and to contribute to the service of humanity.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Are You Living A Healthy Lifestyle?
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." Mohandas Gandhi
People who are engaged in 9-5 jobs; people who have tight schedule and people who spend a large portion of their time in sitting and watching TV are prone to unhealthy lifestyle. Are you living a healthy lifestyle? How can you define your health and wellness?
A study done by Michigan State University defined healthy lifestyle on the basis of four criteria and of the 153,000 subjects only 3% responded in all four characteristics. It is a sad phenomena today as people are living a very sophisticated lifestyle. Let's discuss the four healthy lifestyle characteristics.
1. Not Smoking
These days due to the availability of cigarettes in every street corner and disposable pocket money in the hands of children are the causes of widespread smoking. I have witnessed children as old as 8 years smoking cigarettes and eating marijuana. And those who don't smoke cigarettes are few to find today. I am a non-smoker by choice because I love my life and I want to be healthy. The percentage of those who smoke is 96% than the non-smokers 4%. This is the lifestyle people are living today. Make a wise choice today to live a healthy life later.
2. Reducing the weight
If you hold your weight down, you have a golden chance of living a healthy lifestyle. But there is a rapid rise of obesity among people of all age groups. The modern world is progressing and developing but it has its own disadvantages. People don't do anything to reduce their weight. They don't walk instead they use their cars to go to the next corner. The mobility of people is less and less day by day. Technology is good but it has broken down the normal healthy lifestyle of people. You must maintain your healthy weight.
3. Eating right
People must eat with their brain rather than eating with their mouth for taste. People are craving and dying to eat and taste some various delicacies and cuisine forgetting about their health and wellness. I think people must eat enough to survive rather than to eat for taste. The availability of fast food is the main cause of not eating right. In some parts of the world people are dying of hunger but at the same time there are people in the world who are dying to eat for the taste.
4. Exercising daily
People have time for their office, job, restaurant, friends, clubs and party but they don't have time for daily exercise. People neglect to do the daily exercise and when they don't do the exercise, they can't easily hold their weight down. Their obesity begins to control their movement. People make unnecessary excuses for not exercising. Practically everybody is a victim and avoids doing daily exercise.
If you do ten minutes exercise daily, eat right, control your body weight and avoid smoking or drinking you can lead a healthy lifestyle and enjoy a greater degree of satisfaction and happiness. These four characteristics alone can provide you with a lifestyle that you should be proud of. If you love yourself and love your life then it won't be hard to practice these disciplines.
"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death." Buddha
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
People who are engaged in 9-5 jobs; people who have tight schedule and people who spend a large portion of their time in sitting and watching TV are prone to unhealthy lifestyle. Are you living a healthy lifestyle? How can you define your health and wellness?
A study done by Michigan State University defined healthy lifestyle on the basis of four criteria and of the 153,000 subjects only 3% responded in all four characteristics. It is a sad phenomena today as people are living a very sophisticated lifestyle. Let's discuss the four healthy lifestyle characteristics.
1. Not Smoking
These days due to the availability of cigarettes in every street corner and disposable pocket money in the hands of children are the causes of widespread smoking. I have witnessed children as old as 8 years smoking cigarettes and eating marijuana. And those who don't smoke cigarettes are few to find today. I am a non-smoker by choice because I love my life and I want to be healthy. The percentage of those who smoke is 96% than the non-smokers 4%. This is the lifestyle people are living today. Make a wise choice today to live a healthy life later.
2. Reducing the weight
If you hold your weight down, you have a golden chance of living a healthy lifestyle. But there is a rapid rise of obesity among people of all age groups. The modern world is progressing and developing but it has its own disadvantages. People don't do anything to reduce their weight. They don't walk instead they use their cars to go to the next corner. The mobility of people is less and less day by day. Technology is good but it has broken down the normal healthy lifestyle of people. You must maintain your healthy weight.
3. Eating right
People must eat with their brain rather than eating with their mouth for taste. People are craving and dying to eat and taste some various delicacies and cuisine forgetting about their health and wellness. I think people must eat enough to survive rather than to eat for taste. The availability of fast food is the main cause of not eating right. In some parts of the world people are dying of hunger but at the same time there are people in the world who are dying to eat for the taste.
4. Exercising daily
People have time for their office, job, restaurant, friends, clubs and party but they don't have time for daily exercise. People neglect to do the daily exercise and when they don't do the exercise, they can't easily hold their weight down. Their obesity begins to control their movement. People make unnecessary excuses for not exercising. Practically everybody is a victim and avoids doing daily exercise.
If you do ten minutes exercise daily, eat right, control your body weight and avoid smoking or drinking you can lead a healthy lifestyle and enjoy a greater degree of satisfaction and happiness. These four characteristics alone can provide you with a lifestyle that you should be proud of. If you love yourself and love your life then it won't be hard to practice these disciplines.
"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death." Buddha
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
Monday, October 11, 2010
Fall In Love With Life!
Just like people fall in love with another person by adoring everything about them you can fall in love with your life to enjoy the best of everything. You must ask yourself do you really love your life? Are you in love with your life? If you have fallen in love with your life, you will be positive, optimistic, confident, successful, healthy and wealthy. Loving your life is very important today because it shows how accountable and truthful you are with yourself.
If you love your life, you can become healthy. Millions of people all over the world are struggling to keep themselves healthy physically. The reason is obvious, they don't love their lives. They consider life to be the most precious gift I personally think people neglect to take care of themselves simply because they are unable to love and accept as they are. I think these people must love their lives.
There are majority of people finding hard to earn enough money to run their families. I think it is because they don't love their lives. If you love your life, you will find ways to support your family. There won't be a struggle rather there will be abundance.
When you love your life, the limitation, weakness, anger, fear, jealousy etc will disappear and you will begin to experience strength, happiness, confidence and courage because you love your life. When you fall in love with your life, you will manifest all kinds of good things in your life.
Those who have made big and have reached to the top in the corporate ladder, are the real examples of people who have fallen in love with their lives. I mean here the positive impact that they have on people.
It is good to examine whether you have fallen in love with life or not. If you are in love with life then you can come to know by the results you get in life. So fall in love with life so that you can unleash the power within you and can get unlimited results.
It is only one life so you must make the best use of it. There is tremendous power and talents within you that you can achieve them if you consider your life as important and valuable. What makes your life beautiful, happy and prosperous? Do them as often as you can.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
If you love your life, you can become healthy. Millions of people all over the world are struggling to keep themselves healthy physically. The reason is obvious, they don't love their lives. They consider life to be the most precious gift I personally think people neglect to take care of themselves simply because they are unable to love and accept as they are. I think these people must love their lives.
There are majority of people finding hard to earn enough money to run their families. I think it is because they don't love their lives. If you love your life, you will find ways to support your family. There won't be a struggle rather there will be abundance.
When you love your life, the limitation, weakness, anger, fear, jealousy etc will disappear and you will begin to experience strength, happiness, confidence and courage because you love your life. When you fall in love with your life, you will manifest all kinds of good things in your life.
Those who have made big and have reached to the top in the corporate ladder, are the real examples of people who have fallen in love with their lives. I mean here the positive impact that they have on people.
It is good to examine whether you have fallen in love with life or not. If you are in love with life then you can come to know by the results you get in life. So fall in love with life so that you can unleash the power within you and can get unlimited results.
It is only one life so you must make the best use of it. There is tremendous power and talents within you that you can achieve them if you consider your life as important and valuable. What makes your life beautiful, happy and prosperous? Do them as often as you can.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Talk To Yourself What Is Positive And Empowering!
"The most influential person who will talk to you all day is you, so you should be very careful about what you say to you!" Zig Ziglar
An individual is a community, a society, a family. What happens to a community or society happens to an individual. Though an individual is one being walking or standing alone, his minds, thoughts, and hearts are with the community or society. What bad happens in community, family or society, an individual carries with him wherever he goes. If somebody from his family, circle of friends, or society remarked something bad about him, he nurtures them by thinking and talking to himself negatively. That way an individual is never alone, he is a society or a nation.
The negative remarks and conversation corrupt and influence your mind so much that you can't get rid of them later. You will become the sum total of those negative influences and you know there is nothing much you can gain or learn in life. The negative talks and criticism really affect us and if you are not strong in mind, you will be the victim of such influences.
People who succeed they make sure that they build a strong wall to protect themselves from negative talks. They create a habit to have always positive self-talks. They say to themselves they can do or achieve their dreams. They highly regard their intelligence and skills. They proactively convey empowering message to their subconscious mind and as a result they reap positive results.
The successful people recognize the power of self-talks or auto-suggestions. They speak all the time what they can and how they can do things. They talk in terms of doing and possibilities. It is said that words do become flesh. The words do come true. You must not be careless in speaking out any words. You must speak those words, which you want them to become a reality in your life.
Be watchful what you utter and say to yourself in the silence of your mind. It is more powerful than a sharp sword. Words damage us more than the physical hurts. Choose to say that which you want and expect to happen for you. It is better to learn some powerful affirmations and repeat them as much as you can.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
An individual is a community, a society, a family. What happens to a community or society happens to an individual. Though an individual is one being walking or standing alone, his minds, thoughts, and hearts are with the community or society. What bad happens in community, family or society, an individual carries with him wherever he goes. If somebody from his family, circle of friends, or society remarked something bad about him, he nurtures them by thinking and talking to himself negatively. That way an individual is never alone, he is a society or a nation.
The negative remarks and conversation corrupt and influence your mind so much that you can't get rid of them later. You will become the sum total of those negative influences and you know there is nothing much you can gain or learn in life. The negative talks and criticism really affect us and if you are not strong in mind, you will be the victim of such influences.
People who succeed they make sure that they build a strong wall to protect themselves from negative talks. They create a habit to have always positive self-talks. They say to themselves they can do or achieve their dreams. They highly regard their intelligence and skills. They proactively convey empowering message to their subconscious mind and as a result they reap positive results.
The successful people recognize the power of self-talks or auto-suggestions. They speak all the time what they can and how they can do things. They talk in terms of doing and possibilities. It is said that words do become flesh. The words do come true. You must not be careless in speaking out any words. You must speak those words, which you want them to become a reality in your life.
Be watchful what you utter and say to yourself in the silence of your mind. It is more powerful than a sharp sword. Words damage us more than the physical hurts. Choose to say that which you want and expect to happen for you. It is better to learn some powerful affirmations and repeat them as much as you can.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
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